Monday, August 3, 2020

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image


I'm sorry I don't have information on this Annunciation other than its name as the Annunciation of the Master of Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross). It is unusual not only in the angular severity of the figures (and in Gabriel's delivery of a sealed message!), but in the way the small angels (behind and above Mary's head) seem to be working on the masonry around her, as well as in the Apostles (?) looking the other way: Paul with his sword and bald head is pretty identifiable, but who is his companion with the book? Could it be Luke, who wrote the Annunciation story for us, and was the traveling companion of Paul? 

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About the Angelus Project

We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.

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